Trumps Presidency 2025

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17 hours ago, mtutiger said:

It's really been a blackpill for me to see how much Trump has done to alienate a large majority of the American public, only to see elite circles try to downplay it all. It's enough to make me think they're fine with all this BS

That's what dump trucks filled with money does to people.

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10 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

I don't know if this story will get traction or if the American public is totally somnolent at this point, but our inability to defend our bases should be a huge story.

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

"CNN confirmed" it, but they don't have anything about it on their main page? 

The media need access to the regime, so they'll keep the story contained to the nether regions of the media ecosphere. 

Edited 11 hours ago by chasfh

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2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

"CNN confirmed" it, but they don't have anything about it on their main page? 

I was able to watch the full video report from the regular CNN homepage yesterday.

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3 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Woof

immigration is still toxic for the Dems.

So here is the thing. Most people believe AI is going to lead to big unemployment. I'm less worried about that - at least long term. Historically, new techs have displaced workers but created more net activity. The best example is mechanization of agriculture. That eliminated the work of a far larger % of the population than AI will, but the Industrial Revolution that came with it easily absorbed all those workers. The thing is, we don't see where the new work is yet, so we tend to take the worst case view. However, short term, one thing that will be worse is the speed of adoption. Things move much faster today so the short term displacement can still be bad.

In any case, that real fear over job losses in the economy, whether correct or not, certainly drives a lot of people who are not particularly evil to want immigration to go to/stay at zero. So they may vote against the kind of gratuitous cruelty of this admin, but any reform proposals with things like an expanded H1-B program are not going to go over well in an environment where the predictions are flying that millions of jobs are at risk.

Edited 11 hours ago by gehringer_2

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5 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

I'm curious-does he consider things like the Epstein files and talk of the online rape academy distractions? Sounds like the ultimate example of the tangled web we weave when we try to deceive.

interviewer never went there. His complaint about distractions started when the interviewer started asking about Fuentes. Carlson said he regretted the interview because people overestimate the reach of people like that who have no power and sucks all the attention from what the people who have power are doing.

While I would says he's being more than a little disingenuous there, I'd say he's still correct about the basic fact of the elevation of immaterial over the material - even if guys like himself are a big part of that immaterial.

Edited 9 hours ago by gehringer_2

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Link to cnn report

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/01/world/video/us-military-bases-iran-strikes-images-invs-digvid